tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-91116118516062925642024-03-12T23:35:43.697-05:00the we hunted the mammoth (formerly man boobz) blogger archiveThere is misogyny galore online. I track down some of the most egregious and/or entertaining examples of it, focusing especially on the often misogynistic Men's Rights Movement and Men Going Their Own Way (MGTOW). Sometimes I mock. Note: Not everyone I write about is a misogynist; some are merely sexist, or retrograde, or just sort of creepy. I leave it up to you to decide who fits in which category.Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00569290850910434331noreply@blogger.comBlogger289125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9111611851606292564.post-6767108838133936432011-04-30T15:44:00.001-05:002014-08-22T23:40:13.841-05:00We have moved!<table cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="float: right; margin-left: 1em; text-align: right;"><tbody>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><b>Moving day!</b></td></tr>
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<span style="font-size: large;"><b>UPDATE: <span style="font-size: small;">The blog formerly known as Man Boobz has now moved to <a href="http://wehuntedthemammoth.com./">WeHuntedTheMammoth.com.</a></span> </b></span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;"><b>I</b></span>'ve moved this blog over to Wordpress. You can reach it at <a href="http://manboobz.com/">ManBoobz.com</a> or <a href="http://manboobz.wordpress.com/">ManBoobz.wordpress.com</a>. Almost all of the old posts and comments have been ported over there, so if you want to continue discussing any of them, head to the new Man Boobz.<br />
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I've closed down commenting on all the posts here. <br />
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Meet me at wordpress!<br />
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If you have any problems accessing the blog at its new location, please email me; click on my profile for the email address.Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00569290850910434331noreply@blogger.com7tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9111611851606292564.post-4468060311089457962011-04-29T11:04:00.060-05:002011-04-29T15:47:26.938-05:00My Secret Life as a Group of Women<table cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="float: right; margin-left: 1em; text-align: right;"><tbody>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><b>Not that there's anything wrong with that.</b></td></tr>
</tbody></table><span style="font-size: large;"><b>O</b></span>ne of the weirder pleasures of writing this blog is that, from time to time, as I wend my way across the assorted gathering holes of the manosphere, I discover the natives chattering candidly about little old me, apparently forgetting that I actually read the forums they hang out on. These conversations tend to be a little, well, surreal. <br />
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You may vaguely remember The Troll King from <a href="http://www.manboobz.com/2011/04/brief-reign-of-feminist-troll-queen.html">a post of mine a couple of weeks back on his brief career as a faux-feminist calling herself the Feminist Troll Queen</a>. I recently found him in the Men’s Rights subreddit on Reddit, <a href="http://www.reddit.com/r/MensRights/comments/gw1qe/banned_cliffor/c1qsthe">trying to defend himself </a>against charges of, well, trolling, and suggesting that some of the subreddit’s resident trolls are “manboobz followers and probably feminists from feministe.” (Not that I know of.) But the strangest thing was this reference to me as a person of indeterminate gender:<br />
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<blockquote><div style="color: #990000;"><b> </b>I saw him talking about not being able to become pregnant on one of his posts recently about gangbangs and MGTOW and I wouldn't be surprised if it is a female with a male internet persona or maybe a FTM transperson??</div></blockquote><br />
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<div style="color: black;">Whaaaa? It took me a little while to figure out that he was referring to <a href="http://www.manboobz.com/2011/04/men-who-hate-women-and-women-who-love.html">a dumb joke</a> I made at the tail end of my post about MGTOWers speculating on why some women like porn. Here’s the joke, such as it was:</div><div style="color: #990000;"><br />
</div><blockquote><div style="color: #990000;">Now, I’m no evolutionary psych expert, but, er, what exactly is the evolutionary advantage of facials? I’m pretty sure you can’t get pregnant from semen on your forehead, in your eyes or, say, up your nose. (At least I never have.)</div></blockquote><br />
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Hey, I didn’t claim it was a <i>good </i>joke. In any case, for anyone confused by it, the idea was to humorously suggest that I was such a frenzied masturbator that I regularly shot semen up my own nose. And that this had never made me pregnant. Not only because the semen was in my nose rather than my vagina but because, you know, I’m a non-transgender dude, and <i>non-trans dudes can't get pregnant.</i> (Also, even if the semen <i>were </i>to get in my vagina I wouldn't get pregnant, because I <i>DON'T HAVE A VAGINA</i>.) (Some trans men can get pregnant, but THEY CAN'T GET PREGNANT FROM SEMEN UP THE NOSE either. NO ONE CAN.)<br />
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For the record, I would also like to point out that have never actually shot semen up my nose – or, for that matter, on my forehead or in my eyes.<br />
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Not that there’s anything wrong with that. <br />
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In any case, Troll King’s confusion about my gender – especially strange, given that he himself had just engaged in a bit of internet cross-dressing by posing as the Feminist Troll Queen -- got me thinking back on one of the more surreal aspects of my domestic violence debate with Paul Elam last fall, which was the assumption on the part of a group of his followers that I was not just a woman, but <i>a whole group of them. </i><br />
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As “Frank”<a href="http://www.avoiceformen.com/2010/10/25/a-debate-on-domestic-violence/#comment-5054"> put it</a>:<br />
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<blockquote><div style="color: #990000;">“David Futrelle” argues like a provocative feminist woman, or perhaps I should put a group of feminist women. </div><div style="color: #990000;"><br />
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<div style="color: #990000;">Note the personal abuse, the petty point scoring, the personalised arguments, and the lack of any real evidence or examination of the issues under discussion.</div><div style="color: #990000;"><br />
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<div style="color: #990000;">There is also the (supposedly) witty sarcasms, and the (supposedly) funny rudeness while ignoring hard points backed up real evidence. So typical of the misandrist feminist woman.</div></blockquote><br />
“Roderick” <a href="http://www.avoiceformen.com/2010/10/25/a-debate-on-domestic-violence/#comment-5061">concurred</a>:<br />
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<blockquote><div style="color: #990000;">I suspect the the sarcastically named Manboobz is a group of young ‘educated’ woman.</div><span style="color: #990000;"> </span><br />
<div style="color: #990000;">– note: {Often I have found that mediocre woman always work in groups. Woman who have higher abilities tend to work independently from the protective huddle.} (Who bravely hide from accountability or challenge)</div></blockquote><br />
“Alphabeta,” meanwhile, has a slightly different take on it: <br />
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<blockquote style="color: #990000;">I wonder if Futrelle is a woman disguised as a man or perhaps a woman in the making. His/her words have the whirr of the hamster wheel about them. </blockquote><blockquote style="color: #990000;">Remember this? </blockquote><blockquote style="color: #990000;"><a href="http://mensnewsdaily.com/2010/04/22/mens-studies-foremost-authority-opts-for-castration-literally/">http://mensnewsdaily.com/2010/04/22/mens-studies-foremost-authority-opts-for-castration-literally/</a> </blockquote><blockquote style="color: #990000;"><br />
What right-thinking man advertises his intellectual wares as ‘manboobz’? Sounds like wishful thinking at the very least.</blockquote><br />
Yes, he's arguing that this blog is called "Man Boobz" because I want some. <br />
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I don't, actually.<br />
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Not that there's anything wrong with that. <br />
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So, once again, to clarify: misogynist dudes, when I refer to “boobz” in the title of this blog <i>I am referring to you.</i> It’s a <i>double entendre</i>. “Boobs,” yes, can refer to breasts. But “boob” can also mean “an ignorant or foolish person.” Do you see where I’m going with this? <b>YOU GUYS ARE <i>MEN</i>, AND YOU ALSO ARE <i>BOOBS</i>. The “Boobz” in “Man Boobz” <u><i>ARE YOU.</i></u></b><br />
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She's my sister... She's my daughter... My sister, my daughter. She's my sister <i>AND </i>my daughter!<br />
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Oh dear. I got carried away.<br />
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I should probably explain that the last bit there was from Chinatown. I do not have a sister who is also a daughter<span style="color: black;">. <a href="http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0001159/"><span style="color: black; text-decoration: none;">Evelyn Mulwray</span></a> does. But she’s not a real person. </span><br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><b>Goddesses, or whores? </b></td></tr>
</tbody></table><div style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="font-size: large;"><b>A</b></span> very peculiar ideological battle has broken out on The Spearhead between some of the resident misogynist douchebags and a group of “white nationalists” who have in recent days descended on the site. The Spearheaders’ main beef with these upstanding fellows? Not that they’re hateful racist dicks – sorry, “ethnically conscious.” No, the problem is that they don’t hate white women enough. According to some of the critics on The Spearhead , these guys are apparently “White Knight Nationalists” in thrall to white womanhood. </div><div style="font-family: inherit;"><br />
</div><div style="font-family: inherit;">Spearhead big cheese W. F. Price recently highlighted one anti-White-Knight-Nationalist rant on his site as the <a href="http://www.the-spearhead.com/2011/04/27/comment-of-the-week/">“comment of the week.”</a> It’s an interesting, by which I mean appalling, read. “John” makes clear at the outset that he has no real problem with “white nationalism” as such, and indeed complains that </div><div style="font-family: inherit;"><br />
</div><blockquote><div style="color: #990000; font-family: inherit;">because of “political correctness” it is almost impossible to express pride in the white race without being instantaneously labeled a racist. Nothing like a pejorative to end an intelligent discussion.</div></blockquote><div style="font-family: inherit;"><br />
</div><div style="font-family: inherit;">No, the problem he has is with white nationalist women and the men who love them too much. These guys, he sneers, are </div><blockquote><div style="color: #990000; font-family: inherit;"><br />
</div><div style="color: #990000; font-family: inherit;">likely bunion-rubbers, drink the cheapest of beer, fondle their Chinese SKS nightly, and do whatever the “Old Lady” tells them to do while they strut around in front of their friends and the mountain of aluminum empties like little Bantam roosters. Almost as a universal, they hold up the WN females as godesses in spite of the fact that 99% of those “ladies” have had their holes punched and left full of biological waste by more men than there are oil companies that have ever drilled wells in Texas. Frankly, it’s pathetic.</div></blockquote><div style="font-family: inherit;"><br />
</div><div style="font-family: inherit;">But these supposed “White Goddesses” are not only sluts; John has convinced himself that they are also evil, ugly, hairy <i>feminists</i> too – which would make them honest-to-goodness feminazis, I suppose, though John seems to have less of a problem with the “nazi” half of the equation than he does with the “femi.” </div><div style="font-family: inherit;"><br />
</div><blockquote><div style="color: #990000; font-family: inherit;">The “female” commentators on WN sites are at least as shaming and self-righteous as those on lefty-feminist sites, and I wouldn’t be at all surprised if half of them had some sort of moustache getting a bit out of control on the upper lip and hairy armpits. … </div><div style="color: #990000; font-family: inherit;"><br />
</div><div style="color: #990000; font-family: inherit;">You may as well go over and hang out at feministing. For a good time call 1-800-BITCH. As a rule they are disgusting hypocrites and beyond disappointing. Hell, the best description is repellent. Yes, repellent.</div></blockquote><div style="font-family: inherit;"><br />
</div><div style="font-family: inherit;">Of course neo-Nazi women bear about as much resemblance to feminists as, well, the Spearhead does to Feministing. John is making the mistake that seems to be almost universal amongst internet anti-feminists, assuming that any time a woman asserts herself in any way, even if she is doing so within the confines of traditionalist, authoritarian and, yes, patriarchal ideology, she’s a feminist. Nope. Feminists don’t ask to be treated as “ladies”; traditionalist women do. Feminist men don’t put women on a pedestal; traditionalist men do. And white supremacists are about as traditional as they come, in all the worst senses of the term. </div><div style="font-family: inherit;"><br />
</div><div style="font-family: inherit;">John seemed particularly incensed that one woman on a white nationalist website had suggested that her white brethren needed to step up their game, romance wise, claiming that “Ghetto Negroes have better wooing, and flirtation skills, than so many White males.” How dare she! </div><div style="font-family: inherit;"><br />
</div><blockquote><div style="color: #990000; font-family: inherit;">Here we have a supposed W.N. self-imagined “White Goddess” who has experience with being wooed by “Ghetto Negroes” and she expresses admiration for their flirtation skills. Got her thing tingling, I see. Maybe that “tingling” was satiated a few times by one or more of those “Ghetto Blacks”, yet some “Bush” swilling W.N. “White Knight” will draw his sword and proclaim, “I will defend this sluts honor to my death!”</div></blockquote><div style="font-family: inherit;"><br />
</div><div style="font-family: inherit;">Some Spearheaders greeted John’s post with <a href="http://www.the-spearhead.com/2011/04/27/comment-of-the-week/#comment-87252">bravos</a>; others sniffed that he was being too hard on the poor white supremacists, and<a href="http://www.the-spearhead.com/2011/04/27/comment-of-the-week/#comment-87329"> using “shaming language” like the evil feminists do</a>. Very few seemed to have a problem with the bigotry of the white pride crowd, just their alleged white knightery. As one commenter, calling himself Reality, <a href="http://www.the-spearhead.com/2011/04/27/comment-of-the-week/#comment-87299">reported </a>with astonishment: </div><div style="font-family: inherit;"><br />
</div><blockquote><div style="color: #990000; font-family: inherit;">I’ve tried to get on those White Pride Sites and immediately started discussing how fucked up the modern white female is and was INSTANTLY banned! I was actually shocked. I thought it would be a no brainer that WN types would (OF COURSE) not want white women to be complete parasitical whores roaming the landscape spreading VD like Johnny Appleseed and fucking men over- I mean how you hope for the white race to make a ‘comeback’ if the white family is falling apart?!? One of the very reasons whites are so demoralized and broken politically and culturally is EXACTLY because of the modern American female. It’s just bizarre- these guys really are idiots (at least in this regard).</div></blockquote><div style="font-family: inherit;"><br />
</div><div style="font-family: inherit;">Watching this unfolding fight between male supremacists and white supremacists is really something of a treat for those of us not into the whole supremacy thing. I can only hope both sides lose, and as humiliatingly as possible. </div><div style="font-family: inherit;"><br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><b>Moving day.</b></td></tr>
</tbody></table><span style="font-size: large;"><b>D</b></span>ue to an assortment of issues mostly having to do with commenting -- the hassles some of you are having posting, the lack of options I have as blog owner to deal with comments, the fucking spam filter -- I've started the process of moving this blog over to Wordpress. I've transferred posts and comments over there, and I'm working on the layout. When I've worked out most of the details I will switch over the manboobz url from here to there. If you want to check out what I've got so far, it's at <a href="http://manboobz.wordpress.com/">manboobz.wordpress.com</a>.<br />
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If you do, could you leave feedback in the form of a comment on the top post? Let me know if there are any egregious glitches with the layouts of old posts.<br />
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Also, if any of you have done this sort of switch to Wordpress yourself, or if you have general Wordpress advice, let me know. I may need some help at some point.Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00569290850910434331noreply@blogger.com5tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9111611851606292564.post-13769101827198010282011-04-27T00:13:00.001-05:002011-04-27T17:23:12.279-05:00Poly Styrene, RIP<table cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="float: right; margin-left: 1em; text-align: right;"><tbody>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><b>X-Ray Spex in action.</b></td></tr>
</tbody></table><span style="font-size: large;"><b>P</b></span>oly Styrene, the legendary lead singer of the punk band X-Ray Spex, has died of cancer; she was 53. Her searing vocals, her feminist politics, and her general take-no-shit attitude helped to inspire and influence several generations of female rockers from Kim Gordon to Kathleen Hanna to Beth Ditto. (The NYT <a href="http://www.nytimes.com/2011/04/27/arts/music/poly-styrene-brash-frontwoman-of-x-ray-spex-dies-at-53.html">has a nice obit.</a>)<br />
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Her most famous song was the band's first single, "Oh Bondage, Up Yours," a wailing protest against consumerism and misogyny and other forms of modern bondage. "Some people think little girls should be seen and not heard,” she announced at the start of the song. “But I think" -- and here her quiet voice modulated into a shriek -- "oh bondage, up yours!” Here's a video of her performing the song. (NOTE: If you're having trouble with the video loading properly below, <a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ogypBUCb7DA">here's a link to it on YouTube.</a>)<br />
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<iframe allowfullscreen="" frameborder="0" height="390" src="http://www.youtube.com/embed/ogypBUCb7DA" title="YouTube video player" width="480"></iframe>Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00569290850910434331noreply@blogger.com5tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9111611851606292564.post-85351429268028922022011-04-26T19:19:00.000-05:002011-04-26T19:19:41.888-05:00Ban Hammer Time<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiCE4dpvXmfsRgNS9s29BuJxoem24qncW5PlYbx5M0a_BLQMZZtet-FpwvARYD1za7MHuPqoOxCiQreKNFne-WkKXNTQdPARTGnFl9W9gFoMBV0FXRb40ONrdreGb5AmBgEd42TWNgsCoo/s1600/banhammer.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: right; float: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em;"><img border="0" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiCE4dpvXmfsRgNS9s29BuJxoem24qncW5PlYbx5M0a_BLQMZZtet-FpwvARYD1za7MHuPqoOxCiQreKNFne-WkKXNTQdPARTGnFl9W9gFoMBV0FXRb40ONrdreGb5AmBgEd42TWNgsCoo/s320/banhammer.jpg" width="235" /></a></div><span style="font-size: large;"><b>D</b></span>ue in part to the recent massive derailing of, and general unpleasantness within, a certain discussion thread here, I will be enforcing my <a href="http://www.manboobz.com/2010/11/comments-policy.html">comments policy</a> more stringently, especially when it comes to personal attacks, and off-topic posts that I find tiresome and/or disruptive.<br />
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Also, I'm introducing short-term bans for people who are breaking the rules but don't deserve forever bans. Blogger doesn't let me literally ban people; I just delete their comments. If I've "banned" someone and they keep posting, just ignore them. I will delete their comments when I see them. <br />
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I've updated my <a href="http://www.manboobz.com/2010/11/comments-policy.html">comments policy page</a> to reflect this. If you're new here, read it.Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00569290850910434331noreply@blogger.com83tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9111611851606292564.post-19247124794147056402011-04-26T11:17:00.000-05:002011-04-26T11:17:00.387-05:00Alone Again, Naturally<div style="font-family: inherit;"><!--[if gte mso 9]><xml> <o:OfficeDocumentSettings> <o:RelyOnVML/> <o:AllowPNG/> </o:OfficeDocumentSettings> </xml><![endif]--><!--[if gte mso 9]><xml> <w:WordDocument> <w:View>Normal</w:View> <w:Zoom>0</w:Zoom> <w:TrackMoves/> <w:TrackFormatting/> <w:PunctuationKerning/> <w:ValidateAgainstSchemas/> <w:SaveIfXMLInvalid>false</w:SaveIfXMLInvalid> <w:IgnoreMixedContent>false</w:IgnoreMixedContent> <w:AlwaysShowPlaceholderText>false</w:AlwaysShowPlaceholderText> <w:DoNotPromoteQF/> <w:LidThemeOther>EN-US</w:LidThemeOther> <w:LidThemeAsian>X-NONE</w:LidThemeAsian> <w:LidThemeComplexScript>X-NONE</w:LidThemeComplexScript> <w:Compatibility> <w:BreakWrappedTables/> <w:SnapToGridInCell/> <w:WrapTextWithPunct/> <w:UseAsianBreakRules/> <w:DontGrowAutofit/> <w:SplitPgBreakAndParaMark/> <w:EnableOpenTypeKerning/> <w:DontFlipMirrorIndents/> <w:OverrideTableStyleHps/> </w:Compatibility> <m:mathPr> <m:mathFont m:val="Cambria Math"/> <m:brkBin m:val="before"/> <m:brkBinSub m:val="--"/> <m:smallFrac m:val="off"/> <m:dispDef/> <m:lMargin m:val="0"/> <m:rMargin m:val="0"/> <m:defJc m:val="centerGroup"/> <m:wrapIndent m:val="1440"/> <m:intLim m:val="subSup"/> <m:naryLim m:val="undOvr"/> </m:mathPr></w:WordDocument> </xml><![endif]--><!--[if gte mso 9]><xml> <w:LatentStyles DefLockedState="false" DefUnhideWhenUsed="true"
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><b>Choose "none of the above."</b></td></tr>
</tbody></table><div class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="font-size: large;"><b>T</b></span>he blog <a href="http://annalsofonlinedating.tumblr.com/">A(n)nals of Online Dating </a>is, like a lot of things involving online dating, both hilarious and horrifying at the same time. The blog catalogs the highly ineffective habits of the most clueless and/or offensive would-be romancers online. <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"></span>I’m sure there are terrible female daters out there as well, but the blog mostly focuses on the dudes, many of whom are not entirely dissimilar from the sorts of guys I write about here all the time: angry, undersocialized misogynists who desire women (or at least their vaginas) as much as they hate and fear them. Luckily for the women of the online dating world, most of these men make their odiousness so plain that it is unlikely they will ever score even a single date.</div><span style="font-family: inherit;"> </span><div class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: inherit;"><br />
</div><span style="font-family: inherit;"> </span><div class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: inherit;">Here are a few of my recent favorites. </div><span style="font-family: inherit;"> </span><div class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: inherit;"><br />
</div><span style="font-family: inherit;"> </span><div class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: inherit;">Bachelor Number One I’ll call the Master Debater. He sent <a href="http://annalsofonlinedating.tumblr.com/post/4442288198/does-youre-a-dick-count-as-a-personal-attack-or-an">the following missive</a> to at least one woman online, hoping, apparently, to spark a little discussion, and perhaps a little romance: </div><div class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: inherit;"><br />
</div><span style="font-family: inherit;"></span><blockquote><div class="MsoNormal" style="color: #990000; font-family: inherit;">I love to debate. I feel that Im very good at it. I see the Feminist Movement as a CIA funded political agitation mechanism. Many men feel that the Feminist Movement is anti-male, but I feel that its anti everybody. It hurts everyone that comes into contact with it.</div><span style="color: #990000; font-family: inherit;"> </span><div class="MsoNormal" style="color: #990000; font-family: inherit;"><br />
</div><span style="color: #990000; font-family: inherit;"> </span><div class="MsoNormal" style="color: #990000; font-family: inherit;">My question to you is, would you be able to offer a rebuttal to what I just asserted without resorting to personal attack<span style="font-family: inherit;"></span> </div></blockquote><div class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: inherit;"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: inherit;">Able, or willing? I think any number of potential respondents would be more than able to offer a critique without resorting to namecalling. But what would be the fun of that? </div><span style="font-family: inherit;"> </span><div class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: inherit;"><br />
</div><span style="font-family: inherit;"> </span><div class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: inherit;">Let’s move on to Bachelor Number Two, a guy I’ll call Mr. Optimistic, a fellow who actually thinks he can cajole twentysomething women into having hot sex with him by, among other things, suggesting that women over 31 are unfuckable monsters. (Hint: With<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>few exceptions, women <i>under </i>31 will eventually be women <i>over </i>31.) In <a href="http://annalsofonlinedating.tumblr.com/post/4398696015/no-idea-why-this-guy-is-single%20">his dating profile</a>, Mr. O explains <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"></span>that ladies messaging him should be:<span style="font-family: inherit;"></span> </div><div class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: inherit;"><br />
</div><blockquote><div class="MsoNormal" style="color: #990000; font-family: inherit;">reasonably tall … <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>passionate and intelligent so as to be good company, sexually liberated, and attractive - really attractive, fat chics need not apply (hehe, I’m so self-amusing).<span style="font-family: inherit;"></span> </div></blockquote><div class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: inherit;"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: inherit;">Evidently they need not be sticklers for correct spelling or grammar. Mr. O goes on to explain that he wants a woman who earns her own living, but doesn’t mind him bossing her around. As he puts it, he wants someone:<span style="font-family: inherit;"></span> </div><div class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: inherit;"><br />
</div><blockquote><div class="MsoNormal" style="color: #990000; font-family: inherit;">Capable of holding a steady job but without making it your #1 priority - since it could interfere with our sexual activities. … <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>If you can accept that I’m responsible for taking charge and my decisions will be final, don’t take yourself too seriously and thinks the world of me.</div></blockquote><div class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: inherit;"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: inherit;">He wants a gal who is family oriented, but open to threesomes:</div><div class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: inherit;"><br />
</div><blockquote><div class="MsoNormal" style="color: #990000; font-family: inherit;">Family oriented but not anytime soon … open to spontaneous sexual activities (you know, outdoors sex, the odd 3-some with a cutie we pick up somewhere or one of your girlfriends), likes the outdoors (nudity optional), and doesn’t complain when I go fishing with the guys.</div></blockquote><div class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: inherit;"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: inherit;">And she can’t be in a hurry about the whole family thing. After all, he wants a few good years of fucking before his wife hits the age of 31 – what he says is “the expiration date for most women anyway.”<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>She should be:<span style="font-family: inherit;"></span> </div><div class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: inherit;"><br />
</div><blockquote><div class="MsoNormal" style="color: #990000; font-family: inherit;">ready to have children only after 30 and proving yourself to be a faithful wife and a loving woman, prepared for the duties of a good mother, have class and know when it’s time to speak up and when it’s NOT the time to do so, instead of a stuck-up naggy b!tch who can’t shut up, sociable, know how to please the sexual drive of your partner (little things such as giving me a call when you’ve gotten a new set of sexy lingerie to surprise me), and know that gifts are little treats and rewards, and not a never-ending desire to be pampered.</div></blockquote><div class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: inherit;"> ' </div><div class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: inherit;">Interesting how quickly his disquisition on family values turns into kvetching about "naggy b!tch[es]" and then, just as quickly, into the tritest of sexual fantasies. In any case, he explains, while she should be willing to spend money on lingerie, she should otherwise be a thrifty sort with<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"></span> </div><span style="font-family: inherit;"></span><div class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: inherit;"><br />
</div><span style="font-family: inherit;"> </span><blockquote><div class="MsoNormal" style="color: #990000; font-family: inherit;">good spending habits, no ridiculous credit card debts and a sense of home economy; I’m not planning on changing my excellent lifestyle, and I plant to eventually be able to give my children an excellent education - and that’s not possible without good savings and planning. This will also help teaching them to earn their own achievements, respect their parents, and not be spoiled brats. </div></blockquote><span style="font-family: inherit;"> </span><div class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: inherit;"><br />
</div><span style="font-family: inherit;"> </span><div class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: inherit;">Also, no pets:</div><span style="font-family: inherit;"> </span><div class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: inherit;"><br />
</div><span style="font-family: inherit;"> </span><blockquote><div class="MsoNormal" style="color: #990000; font-family: inherit;">You should also understand that pets are simple money pits that only serve as something lonely women occupy themselves with so that they don’t have to connect with their husbands. </div></blockquote><span style="font-family: inherit;"> </span><div class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: inherit;"><br />
</div><span style="font-family: inherit;"> </span><div class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: inherit;">But hey, he’s not picky:</div><span style="font-family: inherit;"> </span><div class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: inherit;"><br />
</div><span style="font-family: inherit;"> </span><blockquote><div class="MsoNormal" style="color: #990000; font-family: inherit;">I’m attracted to all kinds of women, redheads, brunettes, black, white, latinas, you name it, as long as they’re attractive. Not attracted to fat women, and that includes the infamous “curvy” (a word that used to mean actual curves, not fat), and “a few extra pounds,” regardless of your supposed “inner beauty.” Sorry :)</div></blockquote><span style="font-family: inherit;"> </span><div class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: inherit;"><br />
</div><span style="font-family: inherit;"> </span><div class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: inherit;">The final smiley really nails it for me. If I were a woman – and a few years younger, and not so fat, and bisexual, and into outdoor sex, and both debt- and pet-free, and willing to put my life into the hands of a guy who can’t spell the word “chick” -- I’m sure I’d be begging the guy for a date. </div><span style="font-family: inherit;"> </span><div class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: inherit;"><br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><b>No mystery, these guys.</b></td></tr>
</tbody></table><div class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: inherit;">It’s hard to compete with Mr. Optimistic here, but Bachelor Number Three,<a href="http://annalsofonlinedating.tumblr.com/post/4608113248/i-am-extremely-mindful-of-the-reality-that-you-are"> the guy I’ll call No Beefcake, comes pretty close</a>. His strategy for winning over the ladies? Ranting about how women on Plenty of Fish are a bunch of delusional fatties. <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span></div><span style="font-family: inherit;"> </span><div class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: inherit;"><a href="http://annalsofonlinedating.tumblr.com/post/4608113248/i-am-extremely-mindful-of-the-reality-that-you-are"><br />
</a></div><span style="font-family: inherit;"> </span><blockquote><div style="color: #990000; font-family: inherit;">I can honestly say the selection on here is mostly scary to me. I have no problem with single moms or girls that are other than stick thin. But for real, if you are gargantuan and just gross … please don’t waste your time with me. </div><div style="color: #990000; font-family: inherit;"><br />
</div></blockquote><blockquote><span style="color: #990000;">I'm no beefcake but I am healthy and I am getting tired of creepy girls wondering “where all the good men are” when its clear that they have either been eaten by those same girls, or are in hiding for fear of being mistaken for a 7-11 corndog. I am not Arnie, nor would I want to be but I do have biceps and a fairly flat stomach, if you have a massive muffin-top and can’t take care of yourself why set yourself up by hiding behind deceptive photo angles? Just because you have cleavage does not mean you have nice boobs. We’re gonna find out eventually, why lie now? Every woman’s profile says they demand “honesty”, how many actually offer it? Self delusion is not attractive, except to the worst quality guys. </span></blockquote><div style="font-family: inherit;"> </div><span style="font-family: inherit;"></span><div style="font-family: inherit;"><br />
</div><span style="font-family: inherit;"> </span><div style="font-family: inherit;">Biceps, a “fairly flat stomach,” a raging hostility towards women. Is that all this fellow has to offer? Not by a long shot! Did we mention that he <i>owns </i>his own<i> home?</i> </div><span style="font-family: inherit;"> </span><div style="font-family: inherit;"><br />
</div><span style="font-family: inherit;"> </span><blockquote><div style="color: #990000; font-family: inherit;">I am a homeowner with a couple of promising careers, a well developed intellect, a decent body and a serious disdain for drama, game playing and bullshit. Therefore I do not feel the need to “capture your attention” with something artificially witty and intriguing. How about you show me that you have what it takes to hold an intelligent conversation for ten minutes, or that you actually care about your future, and could be entertaining and fun for me as well?</div></blockquote><span style="font-family: inherit;"> </span><div style="font-family: inherit;"><br />
</div><span style="font-family: inherit;"> </span><div style="font-family: inherit;">So, <i>do </i>you have what it takes to hold an interesting conversation with No Beefcake? Possible topics include: </div><div style="font-family: inherit;"><br />
</div><div style="font-family: inherit;">1) home ownership and why it is the backbone of the American Dream </div><div style="font-family: inherit;">2) why so many women are fat fatties.<span style="font-family: inherit;"></span> </div><div style="font-family: inherit;"><br />
</div><div style="font-family: inherit;">The ball’s in your court, ladies. </div><span style="font-family: inherit;"> </span><div style="font-family: inherit;"><br />
</div><div style="font-family: inherit;">PS: Here's the <a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=D_P-v1BVQn8">Gilbert O'Sullivan song that I stole my title from.</a> </div><div style="font-family: inherit;">-- </div><div style="font-family: inherit;"><br />
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The first, how Men Going Their Own Way see themselves. (Indeed, I found the video on MGTOWforums.com, billed as<a href="http://www.mgtowforums.com/forums/mgtow-general-forum/1660-mgtow-explained-33-seconds.html"> "MGTOW explained in 33 seconds ... ."</a>)<br />
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The second presents what I think is probably a much more accurate picture of the typical MGTOWer.<br />
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</div><div style="font-family: inherit;"> If you enjoyed this post, would you kindly use the "Share This" or one of the other buttons below to share it on Twitter, Facebook, Reddit, or wherever else you want. I appreciate it.</div>Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00569290850910434331noreply@blogger.com41tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9111611851606292564.post-73050699731562189102011-04-23T18:51:00.003-05:002011-04-23T19:29:43.424-05:00On The Spearhead, demanding child support is a "provocation," and beating a woman's face in is "justice."<div style="font-family: inherit;"></div><div style="text-align: right;"></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: inherit;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiiU-Y3otM7IbrDyx8Hd6E_R9zb2lMnV3BfnBlrezaq7t1XMgPek8LZJVoVYcKt1yR0oaM8aXBGwIB5bwpS2hxzUpu_7QyqezORfJqqzTO6wnbj8JXb8doRDuULtljUbfHhRttJ207b-No/s1600/Stop_Violence_by_Quazi_ratm.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: right; float: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em;"><img border="0" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiiU-Y3otM7IbrDyx8Hd6E_R9zb2lMnV3BfnBlrezaq7t1XMgPek8LZJVoVYcKt1yR0oaM8aXBGwIB5bwpS2hxzUpu_7QyqezORfJqqzTO6wnbj8JXb8doRDuULtljUbfHhRttJ207b-No/s400/Stop_Violence_by_Quazi_ratm.jpg" width="400" /></a></div><span style="font-size: large;"><b>A</b></span> little over a week ago, a Florida man in the midst of a divorce hearing, apparently upset that he would have to pay child support, reportedly snapped and brutally attacked his wife, leaving her, as <a href="http://www.abajournal.com/news/article/lawyer_steps_in_to_help_woman_allegedly_attacked_by_ex/">one account of the incident notes</a>, “with two black eyes, broken facial bones and split lips.” (You can see the extent of her injuries <a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjW-F8ERWAXjcZ4_MBmHn_hdIfZFzZBhyphenhyphenxY4w_uZDHBkgCulIhAb-wipd-DZOYcQtERAtOafFtrf3F0CEzi4CAunTIZI0mDEj0odCGJtb5HVB8GUtICSnd-cXV-cqnLUI7NMNXMyF-89Po/s1600/c1main.florida.divorce.wsvn.bcso.jpg">here</a>.) He’s now being held on felony battery charges. The woman had previously tried to get a restraining order against her husband, but apparently couldn’t convince the court he was dangerous enough to warrant it. </div><span style="font-family: inherit;"> </span><br />
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On The Spearhead, sadly but unsurprisingly, it’s the alleged attacker, Paul Gonzalez, who is getting the sympathy. W.F. Price, the site’s head honcho, <a href="http://www.the-spearhead.com/2011/04/22/marine-veteran-snaps-beats-wife-brutally-in-divorce-court/">weighed in on the subject yesterday</a>. In his mind, apparently, the demand that Gonzalez actually provide some financial support for his two children was a provocation of sorts, which led him, as a Marine veteran, to “react ... as warriors sometimes do in response to provocation — violently.” </div><span style="font-family: inherit;"> </span><br />
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</div><div class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: inherit;">At this point, we know very few details about the case. But that didn’t stop Price from opining confidently on what he imagines are injustices perpetrated against the poor alleged attacker:</div><div class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: inherit;"><br />
</div><blockquote><div class="MsoNormal" style="color: #990000; font-family: inherit;">What likely happened in that courtroom is that Gonzalez, representing himself, got the shaft. … We don’t know what the child support order was, but it was probably pretty hefty (as usual), and the visitation quite meager. Add to that the fact that his wife was already living with another man, despite having so recently given birth to Mr. Gonzalez’s daughter, and the situation must have seemed absolutely upside-down to the former marine. It was upside down. His wife is obviously a little tramp who has no problem swinging from one dick to another even while raising two babies, and there she was about to get rewarded with an upgrade in lifestyle while the chump father loses his kids and wallet. That’s why Mr. Gonzalez lost it. </div></blockquote><div class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: inherit;"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="color: black;">Price does acknowledge, in a cursory way, that “</span>beating your wife is always a bad idea” -- though he seems less bothered by the beating than by the fact that in this case the divorcing wife “gets to go on camera making herself out to be a poor, innocent little victim. I highly doubt this woman is innocent.” </div><span style="font-family: inherit;"> </span><br />
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<div class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: inherit; line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt;">The commenters to Price’s article rallied around the alleged attacker. In <a href="http://www.the-spearhead.com/2011/04/22/marine-veteran-snaps-beats-wife-brutally-in-divorce-court/#comment-86354">a comment</a> that got three times as many upvotes as downvotes from Spearhead readers, Greyghost celebrated Gonzalez as something of a hero:</div><span style="font-family: inherit;"> </span><span style="font-family: inherit;"></span><br />
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<blockquote><div class="MsoNormal" style="color: #990000; font-family: inherit; line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt;">I need to send that guy a prison christmas package. He was getting screwed and struck out. To bad he never heard of the spearhead. If about 10 to 15 percent of crapped on fathers did this kind of thing with some murders mixed in there the talk about fathers would sound a lot like the talk when the subject is islam.</div></blockquote><span style="font-family: inherit;"> </span><br />
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<div class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: inherit; line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt;"> Piercedhead offered <a href="http://www.the-spearhead.com/2011/04/22/marine-veteran-snaps-beats-wife-brutally-in-divorce-court/#comment-86344">this </a>take: </div><span style="font-family: inherit;"> </span><br />
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<blockquote><div class="MsoNormal" style="color: #990000; font-family: inherit; line-height: normal;">Gonzalez may well have been overwhelmed by the realization that being innocent of all his wife’s false accusations made little difference to this fate – he still got treated as if he was worthless. In that case, might as well match the penalty with the appropriate deed…<span style="font-family: inherit;"></span> </div><div class="MsoNormal" style="color: #990000; font-family: inherit; line-height: normal;"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal" style="color: #990000; font-family: inherit; line-height: normal;">If the courts won’t dispense justice, someone else will – it’s a law of nature. </div></blockquote><span style="font-family: inherit;"></span><br />
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<div class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: inherit; line-height: normal;">That’s right: bashing a woman’s face in is a kind of “justice.” Naturally enough, this being The Spearhead, this comment garnered (at last count) 56 upvotes from readers, and only 2 downvotes.<span style="font-family: inherit;"></span> </div><div class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: inherit; line-height: normal;"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: inherit; line-height: normal;">Mananon, meanwhile, <a href="http://www.the-spearhead.com/2011/04/22/marine-veteran-snaps-beats-wife-brutally-in-divorce-court/#comment-86362">suggested </a>that the alleged attack had:</div><div class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: inherit; line-height: normal;"><br />
</div><blockquote><div class="MsoNormal" style="color: #990000; font-family: inherit; line-height: normal;">something to do with a warrior’s instinct for dignified self-reliance. … Strip a man of his dignity and what else is there left? </div></blockquote><span style="font-family: inherit;"></span><br />
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<div class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: inherit; line-height: normal;">DCM, even more bluntly, <a href="http://www.the-spearhead.com/2011/04/22/marine-veteran-snaps-beats-wife-brutally-in-divorce-court/#comment-86385">described </a>Gonzalez as:</div><span style="font-family: inherit;"> </span><br />
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<blockquote><div class="MsoNormal" style="color: #990000; font-family: inherit; line-height: normal;">a brave man and a hero.<span style="font-family: inherit;"></span> </div><div class="MsoNormal" style="color: #990000; font-family: inherit; line-height: normal;"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal" style="color: #990000; font-family: inherit; line-height: normal;">There will be more and more of these incidents and it will be a long time before women are seen as responsible for them — which they are. …</div><div class="MsoNormal" style="color: #990000; font-family: inherit; line-height: normal;"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal" style="color: #990000; font-family: inherit; line-height: normal;">It will be men who can’t take it any more who will ignite change. </div></blockquote><span style="font-family: inherit;"></span><br />
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<div class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: inherit;"><span class="commentauthor">Peter-Andrew: Nolan(c) -- yes, that's how he writes his name --</span><a href="http://www.the-spearhead.com/2011/04/22/marine-veteran-snaps-beats-wife-brutally-in-divorce-court/#comment-86510"> took it a step further</a>, saying that:<span style="font-family: inherit;"></span> </div><div class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: inherit;"><br />
</div><blockquote><div class="MsoNormal" style="color: #990000; font-family: inherit;">the only bit I feel sorry about is that he did not arrange to have someone else kill her such that his chances of being caught were minimal. By doing this in the middle of the court he will be put in a cage for a long, long time. And he does not deserve to be there. HE is the VICTIM.</div></blockquote><div class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: inherit;"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: inherit;">Every one of these quotes, with the exception of Nolan’s, garnered at least a dozen upvotes from Spearhead readers.<span style="font-family: inherit;"></span> (Nolan's comment so far has gotten no upvotes or downvotes.) </div><div class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: inherit;"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: inherit;">What sort of comment on this case will get you downvoted by the Spearheaders? One <a href="http://www.the-spearhead.com/2011/04/22/marine-veteran-snaps-beats-wife-brutally-in-divorce-court/#comment-86492">like this</a>:<br />
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<blockquote><div style="color: #990000;">Wow! Nothing justifies violence. I wonder who will care for the baby while the mother recovers. Or doesn’t that matter? </div></blockquote></div><blockquote><div class="MsoNormal" style="color: #990000; font-family: inherit; line-height: normal;"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal" style="color: #990000; font-family: inherit; line-height: normal;">What a coward. Mad at the judge, goes after a woman.<span style="font-family: inherit;"></span> </div></blockquote><div class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: inherit; line-height: normal;"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: inherit; line-height: normal;">Actually advocating murder, no sweat. Suggesting that violence is wrong and worrying about the welfare of the children, outrageous! </div><span style="font-family: inherit;"> </span><br />
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</style> <![endif]--> </div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi9mHhhrlhSsPgMA614Mxyz30SaXg66fwKtxpbJg7hkLOz8Ye0iHTuR5DUPqm_RCzPoDIAeslZB5wtzlAN3Mg6i3SgZp9lCu9IFXS0JC1XZavP5Zd480vpfLMaEANfKdn1-jAfknxpBKAc/s1600/pizza+fraction+fun.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: right; float: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em;"><img border="0" height="200" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi9mHhhrlhSsPgMA614Mxyz30SaXg66fwKtxpbJg7hkLOz8Ye0iHTuR5DUPqm_RCzPoDIAeslZB5wtzlAN3Mg6i3SgZp9lCu9IFXS0JC1XZavP5Zd480vpfLMaEANfKdn1-jAfknxpBKAc/s200/pizza+fraction+fun.jpg" width="200" /></a></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="font-size: large;"><b>F</b></span>rom <a href="http://omegavirginrevolt.wordpress.com/2011/04/21/aid-and-comfort/">a post</a> on the blog Omega Virgin Revolt:</div><div class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: inherit;"><br />
</div><span style="font-family: inherit;"> </span><blockquote style="font-family: inherit;"><div class="MsoNormal" style="color: #990000;">Most women have never accused me of sexual harassment. While a good number have generally speaking it’s an incredibly tiny fraction of the female population that has.</div></blockquote><div style="font-family: inherit;"><br />
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</div><div style="font-family: inherit;"> If you enjoyed this post, would you kindly use the "Share This" or one of the other buttons below to share it on Twitter, Facebook, Reddit, or wherever else you want. I appreciate it. </div>Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00569290850910434331noreply@blogger.com30tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9111611851606292564.post-72838397540762371552011-04-22T17:04:00.002-05:002011-04-22T17:39:01.425-05:00Virtual Women, Real Annoying<div style="font-family: inherit;"></div><table cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="float: right; margin-left: 1em; text-align: right;"><tbody>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><b>Probably not the woman of your dreams.</b></td></tr>
</tbody></table><div class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="font-size: large;"><b>H</b></span>ey fellas! Are you tired of dealing with actual women? Would you rather spend a nice evening at home chatting amiably with a tiny virtual woman who lives inside your computer instead? If so, would it be OK if instead of resembling any woman you’ve ever met in real life this tiny virtual woman instead acted as though she’d been designed by some dude who’s never actually spoken with a real woman? </div><div class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: inherit;"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: inherit;">Also, I should add, if you chat her up cleverly enough, she’ll take off her virtual clothes and show you her virtual lady bits.<span style="font-family: inherit;"></span> </div><div class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: inherit;"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: inherit;">If this all sounds like heaven to you, you may want to check out a little “game” called <a href="http://virtualwoman.net/%20">Virtual Woman Millennium Edition.</a> A friend of mine <a href="http://download.cnet.com/Virtual-Woman-Millennium/3000-7494_4-10584187.html?tag=bc">found it on Download.com theother day</a>, and naturally thought of me. The game, such as it is, allows you to create the woman of your dreams. As the game publisher, an outfit calling itself CyberPunk Software, put it: </div><div class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: inherit;"><br />
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<blockquote><div class="MsoNormal" style="color: #990000; font-family: inherit;">Virtual Woman users can build, talk, and compete against Virtual Women with full artificial intelligence. You choose their ethnic type, personality, location, clothing, etc</div></blockquote><span style="font-family: inherit;"> </span><br />
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</div><div class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: inherit;">By “compete against,” the game makers mean, basically, that you chat with her until she either tells you to fuck off (you lose!) or she takes off her clothes (you win!). Sex, evidently, is something that women own, and the point of dating, for guys at least, is to sweet talk – or wheedle, or con -- the ladies into giving it to them. Women “win,” by contrast, when they force guys to listen to their inane blather without giving the poor schmucks even a glimpse of their titties. (I’d like to think that when my dates take off their clothes we <i>both </i>win.) </div><div class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: inherit;"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: inherit;">I played the game the other night – or at least as much of it as I could stand. The first time, the game crashed before the conversation started. The second time, I played as a raging misogynist and offended my date by calling her a “whore” and a “cunt,” and she left in a huff. The third time, I chatted long enough to convince my date to remove her top. At which point real life asserted its demands, and I set the game aside, never to resume it.</div><div class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: inherit;"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: inherit;">Let’s just say that the conversations I had with each of these imaginary women were something less than sparkling. The woman who eventually took off her top blathered happily away about her hair for a few minutes, then segued into a conversation about how she hated going to new supermarkets because she wouldn’t know where to look to find the milk. She was shallow, silly, and self-absorbed, a virtual incarnation of every sexist stereotype of modern womanhood. In other words, she seemed to come straight from MGTOW central casting. My “conversation” with her only lasted a few minutes, but it seemed to take forever. If real women were like this, I think even I would consider Going My Own Way.<span style="font-family: inherit;"></span> </div><div class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: inherit;"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: inherit;">As <a href="http://download.cnet.com/Virtual-Woman-Millennium/9241-7494_4-10584187.html?messageID=10615234&tag=uo;uo">one review</a> on Download.com put it: </div><span style="font-family: inherit;"></span><br />
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<blockquote><div class="MsoNormal" style="color: #990000; font-family: inherit; line-height: normal;">the girls are just plane stupid, they … keep repeating themselves over and over again, and allot of what they say makes no sense, I say something to them, and they asked me some silly question that makes no sense, once I said what to one about something stupid it said that made so sense, just to see what it would do, and it said ( why are you so worried about me being what?) and it did that with other things I said to it too, its stupid, don't waist your time with this.<span style="font-family: inherit;"></span> </div></blockquote><div class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: inherit; line-height: normal;"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: inherit; line-height: normal;">That pretty much hits the nale on the hed.<span style="font-family: inherit;"></span> </div><div class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: inherit; line-height: normal;"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: inherit; line-height: normal;">So many questions:</div><div class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: inherit; line-height: normal;"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: inherit; line-height: normal;">Were the makers of this game deliberately trying to make the women as annoying as possible, or do they think women are actually like this? Was the inanity of the conversation a bug – the result of shitty artificial intelligence programming – or a feature? Probably a bit of both.<span style="font-family: inherit;"></span> </div><div class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: inherit; line-height: normal;"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: inherit; line-height: normal;">More to the point: who could possibly enjoy a game like this? You’d have to have a pretty low opinion of women to be able to put up with the game’s casual misogyny. But if you hate women that much, why would you want to spend your evening talking to an imaginary woman about shopping and hair?<span style="font-family: inherit;"></span> </div><div class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: inherit; line-height: normal;"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: inherit; line-height: normal;">Perhaps that’s why the publisher seems to have abandoned the game; the latest update on its web site is from 2008.<span style="font-family: inherit;"></span> </div><div class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: inherit; line-height: normal;"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: inherit; line-height: normal;">As I’ve <a href="http://www.manboobz.com/2011/01/ten-years-ladies-then-sexy-lady-robots.html">pointed out before</a>, a small but significant number of “mansosphere” men are eagerly looking forward to the day when sex robots and/or “virtual” women will give men what they see as a real alternative to real women, thus putting supposedly spoiled “western” women in their place and destroying feminism to boot. One of the many fatal flaws in this scenario is that the only people who seem to be interested in making sexbots and VR women are guys who have no fucking clue what actual human women are like. But, hey, if it gets these guys out of the dating pool, that’s pretty much good news for everyone. </div><span style="font-family: inherit;"> </span><br />
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</div><div class="MsoNormal">At this point, I’m assuming it’s just some temporary Google glitch, but if it’s something Manboobz-specific I need to know.</div><div class="MsoNormal"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal">One possible solution: if you’re having trouble posting you may need to enable cookies for this site. If you try this and it fixes the problem, let me know as well. </div>Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00569290850910434331noreply@blogger.com5tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9111611851606292564.post-82542281536138456902011-04-21T11:06:00.002-05:002011-04-21T11:06:00.841-05:00Men Who Hate Women, and the Women Who Love ... Porn<table cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="float: right; margin-left: 1em; text-align: right;"><tbody>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><b>Cats also love porn.</b></td></tr>
</tbody></table><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: large;"><b>S</b></span>o the guys over at <a href="http://mgtowforums.com/">MGTOWforums.com</a> – who want nothing to do with women but somehow can’t stop talking about them all day every day – have some interesting theories on why some women like porn so much, sometimes to the point of addiction. </div><div class="MsoNormal"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal">According to the aptly named womanhater, it’s because <a href="http://www.mgtowforums.com/forums/mgtow-general-forum/1505-women-getting-addicted-porn.html#post16117">they’re picking up tips</a>; apparently, the better women fuck, the better they can fuck guys over:</div><div class="MsoNormal"><br />
</div><blockquote><div class="MsoNormal" style="color: #990000;">Women (a few exceptions aside) see sex the same way a lumberjack sees a chainsaw - a useful tool. If they're 'addicted' to it then my guess is that they're in fact just studying it because they know it is their competition and they'd better learn how to do it like the men they hope to manipulate and extort want it. It's like any other form of physical performance - you get better by watching the professionals. There's not a man among us whose swing wouldn't improve if we spent several hours a day watching professional golfers.</div></blockquote><div class="MsoNormal"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal">True, at least that bit about golf. Based on my admittedly limited exposure to her work, I’m not sure that all the skills that one can learn from watching Sasha Grey necessarily translate all that well to non-gang-bang situations.</div><div class="MsoNormal"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal">Zuberi, meanwhile, suspects that women watch porn<a href="http://www.mgtowforums.com/forums/mgtow-general-forum/1505-women-getting-addicted-porn.html#post16135"> just to spite men</a>:</div><div class="MsoNormal"><br />
</div><blockquote><div class="MsoNormal" style="color: #990000;">Are they really addicted to porn or are they desperately trying to keep up with the sheer number of men who watch porn? Are these harpies so insecure that they have to overtake men in everything? It's pathetic. There's already a number of women who are drinking themselves retarded trying to keep up with men that they think are power drinkers.</div></blockquote><div class="MsoNormal">But are they really watching all the porn they say they’re watching? Shade47 <a href="http://www.mgtowforums.com/forums/mgtow-general-forum/1505-women-getting-addicted-porn.html#post16137">is suspicious</a>:</div><div class="MsoNormal"><br />
</div><blockquote><div class="MsoNormal" style="color: #990000;">When women look at porn they see pixels on a screen. Just some more attention whoring from women looking for a new angle to reel men in.<br />
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Almsot every trashy girl Ive met claims to be into porn but when you look at her internet history its all retarded girl games on flash websites and shit. You know they arent covering their tracks by deleting browser history because that would involve understanding computers.</div></blockquote><div class="MsoNormal"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal">Damn these computer-illiterate, flash-game-loving, only-pretending-to-like-porn slatterns!</div><div class="MsoNormal"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal">AC101202, by contrast, is convinced that a lot of women <a href="http://www.mgtowforums.com/forums/mgtow-general-forum/1505-women-getting-addicted-porn.html#post16198">actually do love porn</a>, or at least the more nasty and degrading parts of it – “facials, ass in the air, DP etc.” Why? Evolutionary Psych 101, dude! Because their reptilian cave-lady brains just <i>love </i>gangbangs: </div><div class="MsoNormal"><br />
</div><blockquote><div class="MsoNormal" style="color: #990000;">Pre-civilization, women thousands of years ago spent their days getting nailed by dozens of guys. We all know here a majority of women have rape fantasies …</div><div class="MsoNormal" style="color: #990000;"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal" style="color: #990000;">Women who are managers, in positions of power, probably get off most watching degrading actions performed on women. Their lower reptilian brain likes seeing women treated like sex objects, since the women who reproduced best were the one's who learned to enjoy gangbanging.</div></blockquote><div class="MsoNormal"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal">Now, I’m no evolutionary psych expert, but, er, what exactly is the evolutionary advantage of facials? I’m pretty sure you can’t get pregnant from semen on your forehead, in your eyes or, say, up your nose. (At least I never have.) Perhaps someone better schooled in evo psych and the general evil of women could explain that to me. </div><div class="MsoNormal"><br />
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</tbody></table><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: large;"><b>I</b></span>n case anyone is still interested, certified genius Scott Adams has written <a href="http://dilbert.com/blog/entry/planned_chaos/">a little apologia</a> (not an apology) for his<a href="http://www.manboobz.com/2011/04/scott-adams-imaginary-friend.html"> recently exposed sockpuppet self-puffery</a>. Actually, it’s not so little. It’s about a bazillion words long, and I couldn’t bring myself to read the whole thing. But I rather liked <a href="http://www.salon.com/news/media_criticism/index.html?story=/ent/tv/feature/2011/04/19/scott_adams_sock_puppetry_scandal">Mary Elizabeth Williams’ take</a> on Adams’ self-inflicted PR woes in Salon. Adams is turning into a nerdy cartoonist version of Charlie Sheen.</div><div class="MsoNormal"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal">You know who’s a much better cartoonist? Kate Beaton of <a href="http://www.harkavagrant.com/index.php">Hark, A Vagrant</a>. This <a href="http://www.harkavagrant.com/index.php?id=202">one </a>of hers is my fave. Or maybe <a href="http://www.harkavagrant.com/index.php?id=21">this </a>one. This one’s good too. Also, <a href="http://www.harkavagrant.com/index.php?id=279">this</a>. Oh,<a href="http://www.harkavagrant.com/archivecat.php"> I can’t decide</a>. </div><div class="MsoNormal"><br />
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</tbody></table><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: large;"><b>A</b></span>ntifeminists regularly charge feminists like me with assuming men and women are the same. Which is a bit silly. I don’t know any feminist who assumes men and women are the same, whether the differences are due to biology (I can’t grow a baby in my belly) or culture (women are far more likely to while away their evenings reading or writing <a href="http://samdean.archive.nu/index.php">fanfic about Sam and Dean</a>). <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"></span>I think the confusion amongst the antifeminists on this point stems from the fact that the specific things <i>they think</i> are different between men and women are often nothing more than sexist nonsense, and feminists can’t help but point this out. </div><div class="MsoNormal"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal">No, if you want to see the ways men and women <i>really are different,</i> it helps to start with actual data rather than a bunch of retrograde sexist assumptions you pull out of your ass. The folks behind the <a href="http://www.okcupid.com/">OkCupid</a> dating site have lots of data – users of the site fill out detailed profiles and answer countless questions about themselves in order to find others like them – and they know how to crunch it. Which means they can tell you with a great deal of precision what the men and women who use their site think about all sorts of things. Which is why <a href="http://blog.okcupid.com/">OkCupid’s blog</a> is so often a source of wonderment.</div><div class="MsoNormal"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal">Take the<a href="http://blog.okcupid.com/index.php/10-charts-about-sex/"> latest post</a> – thanks to Feministe for <a href="http://www.feministe.us/blog/archives/2011/04/19/wherein-ok-cupid-is-right-about-everything/">alerting me</a> to it – which presents an assortment of creative charts -- like the one above, depicting some of the actual differences between men and women on the site. </div><div class="MsoNormal"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal">Who knew that men who mention “poetry” in their profiles were more likely to be into rough sex than dudes who talk about “boating?"</div><div class="MsoNormal"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal">And what about guys who are into <i>both </i>poetry and boating? There must be some. <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"></span>I mean, many of my favorite poems involve Nantucket, a small island reachable only by boat.</div><div class="MsoNormal"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal">Most of the rest of the charts in the latest post don't specifically contrast men and women, but are interesting in all sorts of other ways. (You may have to change some of your assumptions about vegetarians.) If you want more on gender differences (not to mention intersting stuff on race), I'd suggest looking back through the OkCupid blog's back catalogue. Here's an interesting post on <a href="http://blog.okcupid.com/index.php/the-mathematics-of-beauty/">The Mathematics of Beauty.</a> And then there's <a href="http://blog.okcupid.com/index.php/the-case-for-an-older-woman/">this classic</a>, which is probably a big part of why the fortysomething women I know who've used the site have gotten so, so many messages from horny guys half their age.</div><div class="MsoNormal"><br />
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</tbody></table><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: large;"><b>O</b></span>ne of the strangest places in the burly world of Men’s Rightsers and MGTOWers is The Spearhead’s Shieldmaidens forum. And no, I am not making that name up. It’s a forum, essentially, for women interested in being a sort of Women’s Auxiliary to a bunch of guys who are all about hating women.</div><div class="MsoNormal"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal">Given that such a role – trying to help dudes who don’t much like you or your whole gender -- is a bit of a tricky one, the forum moderator Hestia has written <a href="http://www.the-spearhead.com/forum/viewtopic.php?f=10&t=1031">a long introductory post</a> explaining just what new gals should and shouldn’t do to support their menfolk. It’s kind of a masterpiece of doublespeak. Let’s look at some of its highlights. </div><div class="MsoNormal"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal">Hestia starts out by warning the ladies that these rough men sometimes talk in a rough manner:</div><div class="MsoNormal"><br />
</div><blockquote><div class="MsoNormal" style="color: #990000;">As this is a male environment, us girls can expect styles of communication that we might not use ourselves or readily relate to. For the purpose of this post, I will call all of this "locker room talk". … Topics and expressions women may find crude are likely to occur and generalizations about women (or white, western, whatever) used to adequately get a point across. These differences, while bothersome to some women, are not wrong in and of themselves and are not reason to shame men into expressing themselves differently. As women in the locker room, we are the ones who need to look the other [way] and make accommodations; not the men for whom this website is for.</div></blockquote><div class="MsoNormal"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal">In other words: the guys here may call you sluts and whores and worse, but really, that’s your fault for being here in the first place, so don’t complain.</div><div class="MsoNormal"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal">Welcome aboard!</div><div class="MsoNormal"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal">Hestia continues:</div><div class="MsoNormal"><br />
</div><blockquote><div class="MsoNormal" style="color: #990000;">We must also respect this place as one of the few politically incorrect sanctuaries that men have in today's misandrist world. … We should not be bullying men into saying, "yes, indeed not all women are like that!" to appease our own egos. … This is sacred male friendly ground and should be treated as such. … We are but guests on this website and must know our place and respect certain boundaries for the sake of the men here and for the work towards gender peace.</div></blockquote><div class="MsoNormal"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal">Hard to be more abject than this. So how have the menfolk responded?</div><div class="MsoNormal"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal">It appears that not too many men actually read the Shieldmaidens forum, but among those who do, the reaction has been a little less than enthusiastic. Our friend GlobalMan, one of the more excitable Spearhead regulars, basically <a href="http://www.the-spearhead.com/forum/viewtopic.php?f=10&t=1031#p12683">tells her (and all women) to fuck off</a> entirely:</div><div class="MsoNormal"><br />
</div><blockquote><div class="MsoNormal" style="color: #990000;">I have voiced my opinion many times women should be banned all together from here. They are contributing nothing and they are taking up a lot of time and energy of the stupid young men who do not realise that women are just attention whores who won't actually do anything at the end of the day. …. </div><div class="MsoNormal" style="color: #990000;"><br />
You women pretty much fuck up everything you stick your nose into. And you never, ever tire of fucking things up for men under the delusion you have 'something to contribute'. You don't. Get over it. You pop out babies. That is your one and only 'claim to fame' and it used to be enough for a man to love a woman for her whole life and to provide for her and the kids. Now it is not. So you women need to 'act like men' and suck it up. <br />
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Indeed. If women had any class at all you would leave of your own accord and let the men sort out what you refused to. The only posts from women here should be 'Men, please tell us what to do'.</div></blockquote><div class="MsoNormal"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal">A fellow calling himself Diogenes offers <a href="http://www.the-spearhead.com/forum/viewtopic.php?f=10&t=1031#p32961">his two cents</a>: </div><div class="MsoNormal"><br />
</div><blockquote><div class="MsoNormal" style="color: #990000;">That Hestia has to write this thread proves that indeed women who come to this board do exactly that which she complains against. They have such a cozy and male-coddled life that they are shocked when some men rightly express their scorn and foul language towards their attitudes and manipulative behaviour. Women BREED misogyny because all they do is constantly manipulate and get the attention and protection of men by trying to look sexy all the time. Every time a man turns his head towards a pretty lady, she knows she is being looked after and will be rescued by a man if ever her poor little ass does something stupid. They are CHILDREN at heart. One female college student mentioned to me how according to her "every girl" has gone on dates just to get free dinners. How much more proof do we need that women are NO GOOD WHORES?</div></blockquote><div class="MsoNormal"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal">I guess that’s some of the "locker room talk" Hestia was warning the ladies about.</div><div class="MsoNormal"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal">Granted, it's been awhile since I've seen the inside of a locker room, but I don't remember much of the talk in the locker rooms I've been in revolving around the no-good whorishness of all women. I think that might be because most men are not in fact hateful assholes who think all women are NO GOOD WHORES.That's just a theory though. </div><div class="MsoNormal"><br />
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</div><span style="font-size: large;"><b>T</b></span>his weekend, <i>Something Awful </i>gives its readers <a href="http://www.somethingawful.com/d/weekend-web/spearhead-forum-misandry.php?page=1">a little tour of The Spearhead Forum</a> and some of its more colorful fauna. I've borrowed the screenshot above from them. Hagslave entrainment! Yeasty oblivion! <br />
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<a href="http://www.the-spearhead.com/forum/">The Spearhead Forum</a> is if anything a little weirder than The Spearhead itself. It is also the main stomping ground of a fellow named Zebert, who has many, well, innovative ideas about how to solve all the problems of the world (e.g. forbidding education for women, prohibiting gatherings of more than four women at a time, removing the voiceboxes from baby girls at birth).<br />
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The <i>Something Awful</i> folks have gathered up quite a few of his most intriguing posts, and many others of equal value.<a href="http://www.somethingawful.com/d/weekend-web/spearhead-forum-misandry.php?page=1"> Head over there now and enjoy.</a> Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00569290850910434331noreply@blogger.com107tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9111611851606292564.post-11431277974191542622011-04-16T16:57:00.001-05:002011-04-16T16:57:28.708-05:00Do feminists secretly want to be Betty Draper?<table cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="float: right; margin-left: 1em; text-align: right;"><tbody>
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</tbody></table><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: large;"><b>I</b></span>t’s no secret that lots of women love <i>Mad Men</i>, and not just because Don Draper is such a handsome devil. Sure, the show focuses mostly on the swaggering Don. But it also depicts the struggles of numerous female characters as they bump up against the obstacles and issues faced by women at the time, most notably those of secretary-turned-copywriter Peggy Olson as she tries to make it in the boys club that was the advertising world of the 50s and 60s. Meanwhile, the show’s happy homemaker, Betty Draper (now Betty Francis), is about as far from happy as you can get, her life a perfect illustration of Betty Friedan’s critique of the emptiness at the heart of the lives of many middle-class stay-at-home moms of the time. </div><div class="MsoNormal"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal">It’s no wonder that historian Stephanie Coontz has described <i>Mad Men</i> as <a href="http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2010/10/08/AR2010100802662.html">“TV’s most feminist show,”</a> and no wonder why the show is so popular with the feminist women in my life.(Not to mention with me.) </div><div class="MsoNormal"><a href="http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2010/10/08/AR2010100802662.html"><br />
</a></div><div class="MsoNormal">Just don’t tell any of this to Uncle Elmer, a regular commenter over on The Spearhead. He’s evidently never seen the show, but<a href="http://www.the-spearhead.com/2011/04/16/politics-pandering-and-prohibition/#comment-85353"> feels confident he knows</a> why feminists love it so much: </div><div class="MsoNormal"><br />
</div><blockquote><div style="color: #990000;">Feminists ... have a huge forbidden woodie for the “50s”. They simply cannot get enough 50s imagery and its thinly veiled implication that women should stay at home, know how to run a household, and lavishly support their man so he can go out and bring back the bacon.</div><div style="color: #990000;"><br />
</div><div style="color: #990000;">I’m betting a lot of lez-couples have a secret “50s room” in their McMansion (or remodeled Brownstone) where they can act out these suppressed urges. The props must be breathtaking.</div></blockquote><br />
Uh, yeah. As Amanda Marcotte <a href="http://goodmenproject.com/ethics-values/solution-mra-problems-more-feminism/">recently observed</a>,“[w]hen you believe that we live in a female-dominated world where straight men are the most oppressed class, it tends to make you wrong about pretty much everything.”<br />
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</tbody></table><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: large;"><b>O</b></span>h Scott Adams, why must you be so delightfully mockable? Regular readers may well remember the Dilbert dude <a href="http://www.feministe.us/blog/archives/2011/03/24/scott-adams-to-mens-rights-activists-dont-bother-arguing-with-women-theyre-like-children/">writing a really douchey misogynistic blog post,</a> and then defending that blog post in a<a href="http://www.manboobz.com/2011/03/scott-adams-i-meant-to-do-that.html"> highly patronizing and completely unconvincing way. </a></div><div class="MsoNormal"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal">Now it turns out that everybody’s favorite misogynist cartoonist<b> has apparently been posting pro-Scott-Adams comments on Metafilter and Reddit under the super seekret alias PlannedChaos.</b> Today, on Metafilter, PlannedChaos fessed up to the sockpuppetry, admitting that he was Adams; <a href="http://gawker.com/#%215792583/dilbert-creator-pretends-to-be-his-own-biggest-fan-on-message-boards">according to Gawker</a>, Adams has also confessed directly to MetaFilter founder Matt Haughey. </div><div class="MsoNormal"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal">In light of this revelation, I would encourage everyone to poke through PlannedChaos’ comment histories on both <a href="http://www.metafilter.com/activity/128528/comments/mefi/">MetaFilter </a>and <a href="http://www.reddit.com/user/plannedchaos">Reddit</a>. They are, of course, quite (unintentionally) hilarious.</div><div class="MsoNormal"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal">On MetaFilter, Adams' sockpuppet praises Adams (that is, himself) as someone with <a href="http://www.metafilter.com/102472/How-to-Get-a-Real-Education-by-Scott-Adams#3637648">"a certified genius I.Q., and that's hard to hide."</a> He also boasts that Adams (that is, himself): </div><div class="MsoNormal"><br />
</div><blockquote><div class="MsoNormal" style="color: #990000;">turned a failing comic into a household word by transforming it from a generic comic into a workplace comic. He wrote a number of best selling books. He was one of the top paid public speakers for a decade. His website has earned him millions while no other comic property has done the same. One of his two restaurants was solidly successful. And now he's one of the most popular writers in the Wall Street Journal. </div></blockquote><div class="MsoNormal"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal">Wait, what was that right before the Wall Street Journal bit? <i>"One of his two restaurants?"</i> Boy, now I want to find out the history of that second, non-successful restaurant. What went wrong? Did people not hunger for Ratbert’s Ratburgers? Did it have a rotating floor like Hank’s Look-Around Café?</div><div class="MsoNormal"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal">Also, in what can only be described as <b>GIGANTIC FUCKING IRONY,</b> PlannedChaos also<a href="http://www.metafilter.com/102472/How-to-Get-a-Real-Education-by-Scott-Adams#3638997"> mocked another commenter for allegedly having an "imaginary friend." </a></div><div class="MsoNormal"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal">On Reddit, PlannedChaos was <a href="http://www.reddit.com/r/reddit.com/comments/elmox/scott_adams_author_of_dilbert_if_you_cant_pass_a/c19280j">similarly sycophantic</a> towards, er, himself: </div><div class="MsoNormal"><br />
</div><blockquote><div style="color: #990000;">If an idiot and a genius disagree, the idiot generally thinks the genius is wrong. He also has lots of idiot reasons to back his idiot belief. That's how the idiot mind is wired.</div><div style="color: #990000;"><br />
</div><div style="color: #990000;">It's fair to say you disagree with Adams. But you can't rule out the hypothesis that you're too dumb to understand what he's saying.</div><div style="color: #990000;"><br />
</div><div style="color: #990000;">And he's a certified genius. Just sayin'.</div></blockquote><div class="MsoNormal"><a href="http://www.reddit.com/r/reddit.com/comments/elmox/scott_adams_author_of_dilbert_if_you_cant_pass_a/c19280j"><br />
</a></div><div class="MsoNormal">Yeah, but apparently not enough of a genius -- "certified" or no -- to engage in sockpuppetry without totally giving himself away. Just sayin’.</div><div class="MsoNormal"><br />
</div>If you have even the slightest doubt that PlannedChaos is indeed Adams himself, <a href="http://www.reddit.com/r/science/comments/bjm2b/gods_debris_a_thought_experiment_old_but_great/c0nc61y">this comment on Reddit from a year ago</a> should lay those doubts to rest immediately:<br />
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<blockquote><div style="color: #990000;">The people here who are objecting to Adams' fiction about evolution clearly have some reading comprehension problems. A careful reading of the actual book will give you a different opinion.</div><div style="color: #990000;"><br />
</div><div style="color: #990000;">By the way, Adams has said the book was designed using hypnotic methods (he's a trained hypnotist) and it is intended to generate strong opinions, and even some weird amnesia about the content itself. You can see the amnesia and cognitive dissonance in full display in these comments.</div></blockquote><br />
Hmm. Reading comprehension problems. The people who disagree with Adams don’t understand him. Where on earth have I heard that before?<br />
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<a href="http://www.feministe.us/blog/archives/2011/03/24/scott-adams-to-mens-rights-activists-dont-bother-arguing-with-women-theyre-like-children/#comment-356576">Oh yeah</a>.<br />
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Oh, and in his final comment on Metafilter, Adams suggests that his sockpuppetry was all a bit of fun. In other words, like Pee-Wee Herman falling of his bike, he meant to do it. I think I may have heard that <a href="http://www.manboobz.com/2011/03/scott-adams-i-meant-to-do-that.html">somewhere before</a>, too. <br />
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</tbody></table><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: large;"><b>T</b></span>here’s<a href="http://pervocracy.blogspot.com/2011/04/imaginary-feminism-101.html"> a great post up on The Pervocracy</a> inspired by, well, some of the more lovable characters who frequent the comments section on this little blog – our resident antifeminists. As Holly notes, the feminists posting here devote much of their time (naturally enough) to arguing for feminism, while the MRA types, by contrast, tend to argue against an imaginary enemy that only bears a vague passing resemblance to actual feminism. Holly sets forth the tenets of this imaginary feminism, or IF, as she’s managed to glean them from the comments by MRA types here.</div><div class="MsoNormal"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal">IF, she notes, is monolithic:</div><div class="MsoNormal"><br />
</div><blockquote><div class="MsoNormal" style="color: #990000;">Anything said by anyone calling themselves a feminist can be assumed to be true of anyone else calling themselves a feminist. Some random thing Andrea Dworkin said in 1973 is tattooed on all IF's chests backward so they can read it in the mirror. All IFs simultaneously subscribe to the beliefs of Valerie Solanas, Catharine McKinnon, Betty Dodson, Phyllis Schlafly, Twisty Faster, and that person who wrote those weird <a href="http://users.livejournal.com/_allecto_/34718.html">articles about <i>Firefly.</i></a> </div></blockquote><div class="MsoNormal"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal">Imaginary Feminists have no real grievances, are eager to take rights away from men, love shaming men, and are simultaneously sex-hating puritans and sex-obsessed sluts.</div><div class="MsoNormal"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal">In other words, they are dastardly creatures indeed. If they really existed, I would oppose them too.</div><div class="MsoNormal"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal">The post is hilarious and spot-on in its critiques. Well worth reading.<br />
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</tbody></table><div class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-size: large;"><b>D</b></span>rama queens: so annoying, but so, so entertaining. Tammy Wynette, <a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TvGGp32_wvw&feature=related">singing about failing marriages</a> with that little choked-up quiver in her voice. Chris Crocker, begging us to “leave Britney alone!” Emo kids whining about whatever it is they’re always whining about. Cats, <a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2hah695C9iU">being cats.</a> </span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: inherit;"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="font-size: small;">And, of course, Men’s Rights activists, seriously in the running for biggest drama queens of all. </span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="font-size: small;"> </span> </div><div class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: inherit;">Over on A Voice For Men, guest blogger “Tom Snark” recently <a href="http://www.avoiceformen.com/2011/04/10/till-death-do-us-part/">wrote about a little incident in his life</a> in which he heard the woman who lived next door to him yell at her husband because she didn’t like the way he was trimming some branches. </div><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: small;"> </span><br />
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</div><div class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: inherit;">Not much of a story, you’d think. But Snark, showing considerable ingenuity, stretched it out into a 1200 word post. The woman didn’t just yell; she “yapp[ed] at him like a menopausal Chihuahua.” The man wasn’t just embarrassed to have a neighbor overhear the exchange; he</div><div class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: inherit;"><br />
</div><blockquote><div class="MsoNormal" style="color: #990000; font-family: inherit;">know[s] that their facade of marital bliss was now forever shattered in my mind. … Is this his terrible secret, hidden from the world: that he is continually disrespected behind closed doors, by the very woman who said to him “I do”?<span style="font-size: small;"> </span></div></blockquote><div class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: inherit;"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="font-size: small;">Needless to say, Snark answered this question with a resounding “yes.” And then decided that <i>all </i>marriages are like this -- ultimately concluding that the women of the world are quite literally nagging their hubbies to death:</span><span style="font-size: small;"> </span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: inherit;"><br />
</div><blockquote><div class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="color: #990000; font-size: small;">One needlessly stressful incident after another is sure to raise the blood pressure. But actually living with a person who does this, combined with the stress of full-time work five days a week? The origin of the life expectancy gap [between men and women] becomes clear.</span> </div></blockquote><div class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: inherit;"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: inherit;">Never mind that<a href="http://www.rand.org/pubs/research_briefs/RB5018/index1.html"> married men actually live longer than unmarried men</a>, as approximately two seconds of Googling will show. Snark was just getting going: </div><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: small;"> </span><br />
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<blockquote><div class="MsoNormal" style="color: #990000; font-family: inherit; line-height: normal;"><span style="font-size: small;">marriage has no benefit at all for men. It is not even a stretch to say that, in this day and age, marriage is systematically abusive for men. While women can up and leave at any time they like, with minimal resistance from the law, family courts, or society as a whole (we continue to suffer from Eat, Prey, Love syndrome) – men cannot leave women without paying the price.</span> </div></blockquote><div class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: inherit; line-height: normal;"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: inherit; line-height: normal;">Yes, he did say “prey,” not “pray.” But wait, there’s more:<span style="font-size: small;"> </span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: inherit; line-height: normal;"><br />
</div><blockquote><div class="MsoNormal" style="color: #990000; font-family: inherit; line-height: normal;"><span style="font-size: small;">Married men are literally trapped, stuck supporting the poisonous predators that will eventually kill them. Plenty of women know this; perhaps this is why they are so keen on the idea. A little legal tweaking was all it took for feminists to remake marriage in their own image: men are now the dehumanised tools for women’s personal use. Sex roles have not simply been reversed, because men continue to do most of the work. What has changed is that the paycheque is now handed directly over to the wife, and his time at home will be spent completing endless ‘honey-do’ lists.</span> </div></blockquote><div class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: inherit; line-height: normal;"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: inherit; line-height: normal;">Oh, the terrible tyranny of the “honey-do” list! Hitler had nothing on these foul shrews and their endless branch-trimming demands!</div><div class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: inherit; line-height: normal;"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: inherit; line-height: normal;">Now, I don’t mean to make light of verbal abuse. It happens, and it’s real abuse. I once had a neighbor, an elderly Italian man, who was continually yelling at his wife. Most of it was in Italian, so I don’t know exactly what he was saying, but every sentence or two was punctuated by what was evidently his favorite English word, “asshole,” a word he delivered with so much contempt it was chilling. In between these verbal barrages, I could hear his wife softly responding, trying to placate him. I don’t think he physically abused her – he was in a wheelchair – but this verbal abuse was constant. I doubt there was a single day I didn’t hear it. Had I known then what I know now, I would have called the police.</div><div class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: inherit; line-height: normal;"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: inherit; line-height: normal;">But not every overheard argument is a sign of abuse. Snark has heard one nasty exchange in the ten years he’s lived next to this couple – and he’s concluded from this one data point not only that his neighbor is being abused but that virtually all married men are prisoners to “poisonous predators [who] will eventually kill them.”<span style="font-size: small;"> </span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: inherit; line-height: normal;"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: inherit; line-height: normal;"><span style="font-size: small;">Naturally, the regular commenters on A Voice For Men found this conclusion eminently reasonable. Indeed, in one <a href="http://www.avoiceformen.com/2011/04/10/till-death-do-us-part/#comment-29603">heavily upvoted comment</a>, Barbarossaaa managed to out-queen Snark’s already impressive drama queenery:</span><br />
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<blockquote><span style="color: #990000; font-size: small;">All one has to do is to observe these married men, i mean really look at them… dont let them catch you looking, observe the married man is his natural habitat, and if you look close you can see the dulled eyes of a man simply waiting to die.</span><span style="font-size: small;"> </span></blockquote></div><blockquote><div class="MsoNormal" style="color: #990000; font-family: inherit; line-height: normal;"><span style="font-size: small;">he is the fly caught in the spider web, that has accepted its fate and stopped struggling. he now waits for the black widow to climb down and consume him slowly but surely…</span><span style="font-size: small;"> </span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="color: #990000; font-family: inherit; line-height: normal;"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal" style="color: #990000; font-family: inherit; line-height: normal;"><span style="font-size: small;">this is not freedom it’s subtle servitude … you are dancing her dance, she is the initiator you are the reactor, and SHE decides whether you pass or fail she is in complete control.</span><span style="font-size: small;"> </span></div></blockquote><div class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: inherit; line-height: normal;"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: inherit; line-height: normal;"><span style="font-size: small;">Yes, married men are all dead-eyed puppets in the hands of their evil wives. When I read this last bit, I couldn’t help but think of this little scene in Ed Wood’s perplexing bad-movie masterpiece Glen or Glenda, in which Bela Lugosi, himself a drama queen of considerable ability, shouts out “pull the string!” for no apparent reason:</span> </div><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: small;"></span><br />
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</div><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"> </span></span><div style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span><span style="font-size: large;"><b>I</b></span>t’s not hard to find misogyny on manosphere sites. Hell, on some sites, like The Spearhead or MGTOWforums.com, it’s hard to find a discussion that’s <i>not </i>overflowing with misogyny.</span></span><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"></span></span><span style="font-size: small;"><span> </span></span></div><div style="font-family: inherit;"><br />
</div><div style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span>What <i>is </i>hard to find, sometimes, is misogyny that is <i>interesting</i>. As I poked around on the regular sites today the misogyny all blurred together into one giant mass of "I've heard it all before." Here, it's: <a href="http://www.mgtowforums.com/forums/mgtow-general-forum/1391-i-m-just-gonna-bitter-angry-old-man-2.html#post15240">women are all dirty whores</a>. There, it's:<a href="http://www.mgtowforums.com/forums/mgtow-general-forum/1351-do-you-think-women-know-they-will-lose-mens-protection.html"> those damn bitches will get their comeuppance when we Go Our Own Way</a>. Yeah, yeah. Tell me something I don't know. </span></span> </div><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"></span></span><div style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span><br />
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</div><div style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span>In the meantime, I present: a cat trying to jump onto a dresser. (In the interest of fairness, I should point out that cats can also do <a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-ajIn1OWZy0%20">this</a>.)</span></span> </div><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"></span></span><div style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span><br />
</span></span></div><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"> </span></span><div style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="font-size: small;">Maybe I'm just being cranky. There may well be some genuinely interesting misogyny I missed in either or both of the threads I linked to above. If you find some, feel free to post it in the comments. </span></div><div style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="font-size: small;">-- </span></div><div style="font-family: inherit;"><br />
</div><div style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="font-size: small;">If you enjoyed this post, would you kindly* use the "Share This" or one of the other buttons below to share it on Twitter, Facebook, Reddit, or wherever else you want. I appreciate it. </span></div>Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00569290850910434331noreply@blogger.com51tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9111611851606292564.post-7066900893055100772011-04-11T17:33:00.001-05:002011-04-11T18:00:48.253-05:00Body heat<table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="float: right; margin-left: 1em; text-align: right;"><tbody>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><b>Jayne Mansfield leaks sex onto Sophia Loren</b></td></tr>
</tbody></table><div style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-size: large;"><b>B</b></span>e careful, gals. With warmer weather coming, don’t be tempted to wear skimpier clothes. Because female sexuality works the same as body heat on a cold winter’s day: the more skin you show, the more heat – literal and figurative – leaks out. Eventually, you will run out. And that’s bad news, possibly for you, and definitely for your future husbands. (And really, they’re the only ones who count.)</span></span><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"></span></span> </div><div style="font-family: inherit;"><br />
</div><div style="font-family: inherit;">That, in any case, is the theory of one traditional-minded Men’s Rightser calling himself Alucin. In a <a href="http://alcuin-constant.blogspot.com/2011/04/marital-sexuality.html">blog post today</a> he mused about the differences between traditional religious women and, you know, all those filthy “western” sluts wandering around exposing sexy bits like their legs and their … hair. (Not their leg hair, their head hair. We’ll get to leg hair in a minute.) Alucin writes: </div><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-weight: normal;"></span></span><br />
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<blockquote><div class="MsoNormal" style="color: #990000; font-family: inherit;"><span style="font-size: small;">Orthodox Jewish [and] Muslim women [cover] their hair and other parts when in public. The ideal is that they save their sexuality for their husband. Only their husband can see their hair, legs, cleavage, and experience their sexuality.</span><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"></span></span> </div></blockquote><div class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: inherit;"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: inherit;">All well and good, Alucin says. “Western women,” by contrast,<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"></span></span> </div><div class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: inherit;"><br />
</div><blockquote><div class="MsoNormal" style="color: #990000; font-family: inherit;">fully display their sexuality, and tend not to value virginity or other traditional sexual morals. Then, when married, they turn into dowdy, asexual androids, gaining weight and wearing their man's clothes. And forgetting to shave.</div><div class="MsoNormal" style="color: #990000; font-family: inherit;"><span style="font-size: small;"><br />
They give none of their sexuality to their husbands. It has already been used up. She says that she owns her sexuality, but in fact it was the zillion guys she's been with who have owned her sexuality. Her sexuality has been farmed and mined.</span> <span style="font-size: small;"><br />
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A western woman's sexuality is for everyone </span> <span style="font-size: small;"><i>but</i> her husband. </span></div></blockquote><div class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="font-size: small;"> </span><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"></span></span> </div><div class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: inherit;">Here’s one of those horrible hair-showing western harlots singing about hot cleavage in the summertime. (Just so you don’t get too confused by the <a href="http://www.azlyrics.com/lyrics/reginaspektor/summerinthecity.html">lyrics</a>, I’m pretty sure the song is from the point of view of a guy missing his girlfriend.) </div><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"> </span></span><br />
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</div><div style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="font-size: small;"> If you enjoyed this post, would you kindly use the "Share This" or one of the other buttons below to share it on Twitter, Facebook, Reddit, or wherever else you want. I appreciate it. </span></div><span style="font-size: small;"><br style="font-family: inherit;" /></span>Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00569290850910434331noreply@blogger.com43tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9111611851606292564.post-86330588921519482702011-04-10T18:01:00.003-05:002011-04-10T18:08:34.686-05:00Female action heroes: An abomination<table cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="float: right; margin-left: 1em; text-align: right;"><tbody>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><b>Most 12-year-old girls are <i>not </i>superheroines.</b></td></tr>
</tbody></table><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: large;"><b>O</b></span>ne of my favorite dopey complaints from the Men’s Rights crowd is that action movies featuring ass-kicking women are “unrealistic” because real women are too dainty to do all that ass-kicking shit. On The Spearhead today, W.F. Price aims his withering contempt at the new film Hanna: </div><div class="MsoNormal"><br />
</div><blockquote><div class="MsoNormal" style="color: #990000;">The ass-kicking chick flicks are getting more and more ridiculous as time goes on. In “Hanna” a girl is raised by her father to be a vicious killer somewhere in the arctic. Hanna is played by Saoirse Ronan, an Irish girl with a sweet smile who looks about as tough as a bunny rabbit. Nevertheless, we are supposed to suspend disbelief and accept that this waif is capable of breaking necks with a single blow.</div></blockquote><div class="MsoNormal"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal">Even worse, in the trailer for the film, young Miss Ronan is depicted doing … pull-ups! “In general, women can’t do pull-ups,” Price complains, “and the vanishingly few who can don’t look much like Saoirse Ronan.”</div><div class="MsoNormal"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal">Price does have a point. Real women can’t do the things that female action heroes do in films. Angelina Jolie may be a deeply scary woman, but I’m pretty sure she can’t take out entire boats full of trained assassins by herself, or jump from truck to truck on the highway to escape pursuers in cars, as she did as super seekret double (triple?) agent Evelyn Salt. Also, to the best of my knowledge, Sarah Michelle Gellar has never really slain even a single vampire. And there is no such thing as an <a href="http://heroeswiki.com/Claire_Bennet">indestructible cheerleader</a>.</div><div class="MsoNormal"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal">But here’s the thing, guys: All that crazy shit that male action stars do? <b>Real men can’t do that either.</b> Matt Damon is pretty buff, and I’m pretty sure he could take Angelina Jolie in a fight, but he’s not actually Jason Bourne. Christian Bale doesn’t put on a batsuit at night and run around town taking out baddies with his bare – well, gloved -- hands. Toby Maguire can’t swing from building to building, or stick to walls; if he were bitten by a radioactive spider, he’d need to go to the hospital. Arnold is not the Terminator. </div><div class="MsoNormal"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal">Also, and I hate to be the one who has to break this to you, guys: professional wrestling is fake.</div><div class="MsoNormal"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal">I know it might be tough to take all this in, guys, so here’s Captain Kirk fighting a very slow-moving alien monster on planet Not-Very-Far-From-The-Studio. Kirk has a little trouble with this one but in real life, I'm pretty sure William Shatner <i>could</i> take down an alien monster, provided it moved as slowly as this one.</div><div class="MsoNormal"><br />
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